New Asteroid Detected Only After It Passes 76,000 miles from Earth

New Asteroid Detected Only After It Passes 76,000 miles from Earth

Close shave from an undetected asteroid
By Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | July 25, 2017
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2017-oo1-close-pass-undetected

Scientists spot a new asteroid the size of a passenger plane (but only three days After
it passed just 76,000 miles from Earth)
By Cheyenne McDonald, Daily Mail, July 27, 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4737450/Phew-Scientists-spot-asteroid-flew-past-Earth.html

Related news article is:

Planetary defense campaign will use real asteroid for the first time, The University
of Arizona, July 28, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-planetary-defense-campaign-real-asteroid.html

http://tucson.com/news/science/university-of-arizona-to-lead-global-exercise-on-response-to/article_bc6fa864-366f-5ce1-9592-2ace77c430e1.html

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/upcoming-asteroid-flyby-will-help-nasa-planetary-defense-network

Yours,

Paul H.